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Choosing a Mother Tongue - Corinne A. Seals

Choosing a Mother Tongue

The Politics of Language and Identity in Ukraine
Buch | Softcover
224 Seiten
2024
Multilingual Matters (Verlag)
978-1-78892-567-9 (ISBN)
CHF 52,25 inkl. MwSt
This book investigates narrative accounts of language and politics in Ukraine, including the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war, providing a detailed analysis of how national and linguistic identity are discursively renegotiated during a time of mass conflict. It examines connections between language, identity and politics in Ukraine and the diaspora.
This book presents a sociocultural linguistic analysis of discourses of conflict, as well as an examination of how linguistic identity is embodied, negotiated and realized during a time of war. It provides new insights regarding multilingualism among Ukrainians in Ukraine and in the diaspora of New Zealand, the US and Canada, and sheds light on the impact of the Russian-Ukrainian war on language attitudes among Ukrainians around the world. Crucially, it features an analysis of a new movement in Ukraine that developed during the course of the war – ‘changing your mother tongue’, which embodies what it is to renegotiate linguistic identity. It will be of value to researchers, faculty, and students in the areas of linguistics, Slavic studies, history, politics, anthropology, sociology and international affairs, as well as those interested in Ukrainian affairs more generally.



This book is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence.

Corinne A. Seals is Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is co-editor of Heritage Language Policies Around the World (with S. Shah; 2017, Routledge) and Embracing Multilingualism Across Educational Contexts (with V. I. Olsen-Reeder; 2019, VU University Press). Her research interests include language and identity, language and politics and Ukrainian issues.

Chapter 1. Historical Language Ideologies and Sociopolitical Conflict in Ukraine



Chapter 2. Language and Identity After the Orange Revolution                   



Chapter 3. Othering and Positioning During a Time of War            



Chapter 4. Who’s Responsible? The Politics of Language



Chapter 5. Renegotiating Identity and ‘Changing Your Mother Tongue’



Chapter 6. Investment and Loyalty in the Ukrainian Diaspora



Chapter 7. ‘It Doesn’t Matter What You Speak’: Challenges to Dominant Language Ideologies by Ukrainian Young Adults



Concluding Thoughts     



Appendices

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Multilingual Matters
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 360 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 1-78892-567-X / 178892567X
ISBN-13 978-1-78892-567-9 / 9781788925679
Zustand Neuware
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